My experience with surgery

Hey everyone! I'm back from my surgery! It went pretty well. I got there with five minutes to spare, and waited around ten minutes until a nurse (at least I think she is...) called me and led me to a room with a nice comfy chair I laid on. I had a blood pressure cuff put on my arm, a very large bib over my body, and a gas mask piece put over my mouth to help me breath in the laughing gas. After a minute, the doctor asked if I felt alright, and that second I started to feel light and strange. The computer screen across the room popped out at me, and it was weird. She told me she would put a rubber band around my arm, clean my arm off (in one spot, of course), and pinch my skin, which I said "ouch" loudly to, and the next minute they said the i.v. tube was in my arm, which made my eyes pop open and made the nurse laugh. =) Then they had me breath deeply a couple times, and the next thing I know, I feel like I am trying to sleep in the car and people around me are laughing and talking, keeping me from dreamland, but I didn't care. Then they tell me to wake up, take the bib (why am I calling it that? haha) and several other things off, and lead me to a small recovery room where I was helped onto a strange long chair/bed thing. It was weird. It was higher than a couch, flat, and too long for me to bed my legs. They had me stare at a box that said how much oxygen I was getting and how fast my heart was beating on it, and someone would come in every minute or two and wipe off the tears that were coming down my face for some odd reason. I didn't feel scared or sad or anything, but they said I was crying because I was relieved. Anyways, after another minute or two, they asked if I was good enough to go home, and I said yes (I was), so a lady took the i.v. tube out of my arm and led me to my mom who had been waiting for a little more than a hour. When we got home, I had to take the gauze rolls out of my mouth and eat something (pancakes was what I chose) with two pain pills. It was WEIRD because my entire front lip area (bottom lip, chin, etc.) was completely numb and big. lol I had to grab it and look in the mirror in order to tell what was my tongue and what wasn't, and it took a while to learn how to swallow again. For the past three hours I have been holding an ice pack up to my face to prevent swelling and heating in those areas. I feel great now. I know, I have gauze rolls and paper towels in my mouth, and I can feel a very very very slight pain in the back of my mouth (which basically feels like my wisdom teeth-when they were still in there-moving a little, which isn't bad.), but I feel practically normal. Thanks for praying for the surgery! It went great, and I am confident that my recovery will be very short. =) Praying is definitely welcome for the recovering part. Thanks for everything! 8D

Kirstin